Ocean Casino Resort in AC to shed Royal Jelly burlesque nightclub. Speakeasy-style lounge to take its place.

Amid sweeping changes less than a year after it reopened, the Ocean Casino Resort is saying goodbye to its burlesque club.

Ivan Kane’s Royal Jelly is the $9 million nightclub that was a holdover from the casino’s days as the Revel. It reopened at the start of last summer, adding updates to the lighting, sound board, and light show control system.

But by Memorial Day weekend, the nightclub will be history. In its place will be a 1927 Lounge + Speakeasy, according to Mike Donovan, the casino’s chief marketing officer and senior vice president.

“We will continue to evolve and create new offerings and experiences for our guests,” Donovan said Thursday.

Between now and then, entertainment at Royal Jelly will continue on the weekends.

“We did phenomenally well in a casino that was dead,” Kane told NJ Advance Media last year, referring to the club’s days in the struggling Revel. He called the original closure “premature.” Kane is no longer associated with Kiss Kiss.

A spokeswoman for Kane did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday morning. According to the nightclub’s website, Kane’s Royal Jelly had been sold and was operating as Royal Jelly Burlesque Nightclub. It was not clear when Kane had sold the club.

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Ivan Kane's Royal Jelly burlesque nightclub at Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City

The change is one of several the property has undergone in an attempt to turn the struggling casino around. Last month, operators announced the gleaming tower would be called the Ocean Casino Resort, rather than the Ocean Resort Casino, to put the emphasis back on gambling.

With that change has come a switch to focus on affordability rather than luxury — a misstep many cited in the high-end Revel’s short tenure on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

“The prior two owners advertised this property as a resort,” Eric Matejevich, the newly named divestiture trustee of the property, said in February. “We view ourselves as a great casino property with beautiful resort amenities.”

The Ocean Casino Resort opened alongside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino last June to much fanfare and anticipation, but had already start to have financial problems by September by falling below minimum liquidity levels established by the state.